Whatever you do… don’t look up!

Keep your head down!

Keep charging ahead!

Really?

“Move forward at full speed while looking down”?

Does that sound like good advice for success in life?

Couldn’t it lead to an unexpected collision?

Maybe, but that’s what everybody was doing when I went for my morning walk…

The woman walking her two identical small dogs looked down..her eyes fixed firmly on the ground.

The guy who runs several miles each day had a forward-leaning posture that just naturally made him look down

The mom pushing her new baby was gazing downward, too.

“Gee”, I thought, “I never noticed that before.”

Of Course not!

Because I was doing the same thing… Walking with my eyes looking down.

Some moment of craziness must have prompted me to look up.

To look up is clearly foolish. If I don’t look down…

I might trip.

I might twist an ankle.

I might step in something unpleasant.

In fact looking down made so much sense that I decided to intentionally walk with my head bent down…

I would pay special attention to what I saw walking this way.

Maybe I would find something with special meaning.

There it was. I saw it. . . A sign… A symbol.

Something I would have missed had I been looking up….

A tree root shaped like an arrow.

I followed it… and ran right into the trunk of a 40 foot tree.

Maybe looking down is not such a good idea after all.

Think of all the phrases with “down” in them. Are any of them happy phases?

• “He was downcast…”
• “Look down that long lonesome road…”
• “That’s a real downer…”

Where does the Bible say, “Look down to the ground from whence your help comes?”

Sometimes it seems so much easier to look down… so much safer.

Maybe that’s not where God wants us to look…

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?  My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip— Psalm 121: 1-3